After the unmitigated disaster that was my first resin kit, I have decided to dip my toe into the water again with another one - hopefully this will go together much more nicely!
It's the 1/72 VFR models Grumman AA-5 kit, designed and produced by @Bangseat. This is an aircraft that I used to fly in the late 1990's, when I was working as a flying instructor. I will paint it as "G-OMOG", an aircraft operated by Solent Flight at Southampton airport - here's a photo of the aircraft, copyright Simon Palmer:
It also has the benefit of being a simple livery to replicate - solid colours and basic design. Many other AA-5's that I flew during this time had metallic paint and complicated designs - I'm taking the easy option here!
So what's in the kit? Let's start with the box, which is very sturdy, top opening and has some good graphics:
As you can see, four decal options are supplied, the one for G-ODAM will make a great template for my own decals, which will need producing at some stage:
The parts come in several in several bags, with multiple pieces for the different variants:
And an instruction sheet, showing the various different variants that can be built:
First impressions are very promising - I'm looking forward to this!